Hong Kong and Shen Zhen 15 Dec - 25 Dec 2005

Small hostel room, Dragon Inn, in MongKok. Not much walking space but got TV with good channels.

View of the HK mountain ranges from bus to Sai Kung.

Sea village Sai Kung.

Yumyum finished dim sum at Sai Kung.

Good place with lots of fresh see food at Sai Kung.

Start of 100km MacLeHose Walking Trail

Trail markers at 500m interval from M001 – M200

View of High Land Reservoir

View of High Land Reservoir

View of High Land Reservoir

View of High Land Reservoir

View of High Land Reservoir

View of High Land Reservoir

Breakwater ‘dolosses’

Pavillion rest point.

End of stage 1 and start of stage 2

Descend to Sai Wan lagoon

Trail market M021

Sai Wan lagoon

Trail up Sai Wan mountain

Trail up Sai Wan mountain

Halfway point pavilion

Almost near Sai Wan summit

Almost near Sai Wan summit

At Sai Wan summit

Towards Long Ke Wan and village

Mr Lei, the cook at the village

Delicious Maggie Mee and luncheon meat

Continuing on to stage 2

Rest day with soya bean milk breakfast

Went to visit the Buddha on Lantau Island

Start of trail stage 9

End of trail stage 8

Trek up to Tai Mo Shan, HongKong highest peak

2 hrs to the radio station

On the way

On the way

On the way

Descending

Long walk

Wild cows along the way.

Their pooo…

Change to forest terrain

Start of stage 8

Lung Mun Country Trail along the way

Back to town, playing Chinese Chess for S$4

If you win.

HongKong Guinness Book of record for largest musical lights

Start of stage 9

Mostly road

We were there yesterday

Road

Trail marker M162

Information about trail marker

Long walk

Autumn trees

School kids bbqing in the morning?

Paintball anyone?

Delicious Japanese meal

On our way to ShenZhen

Big triple room in ShenZhen for the same price of a single

Sign posting to highest mountain, Wutong 934m, in ShenZhen

Interesting stone

View of ShenZhen town

Road barrier with an artistic touch

3hrs of long winding uphill boring walk

Split point to the middle and lower mountain in ShenZhen

See the long stairs up… 500..

Start counting…

200 more

At the top of the stairs looking back

A bit of smog

Some more to the summit

Some more to the summit

Sign posting at summit

From the summit descending to Sai Tung

Steep descend

Steep descend

Steep descend

Crescent and 5 stars on the ground. Hmm…

At the start of the highest mountain in ShenZhen

Yummy food

At the Chinese Cultural Village near the Overseas Chinese Town

Happy Valley

Window of the world